xiii, 353 pages : 23 cm

"From the landing of the Pilgrims through the American Revolution, American religious thought was strongly influenced by the Puritan theologian William Ames. Quoted more often in the New World than either Luther or Calvin, Ames was read in Latin by undergraduates at Harvard and Yale as part of their basic instruction in divinity. Both Thomas Hooker and Increase Mather recommended the Marrow of Theology as the only book beyond the Bible needed to make a student into a sound theologian. Brief, lucid and comprehensive, the Marrow presents the substance of the Puritan understanding of God, the church and the world. Ames shows Puritanism to be an eminently practical religion which stresses individual experience and feeling. Connections run from Ames in the eighteenth and Friedrich Schleiermacher in the nineteenth."--Jacket

Translation of: Medulla theologica

Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Pilgrim Press, 1968. (Milestone library)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Book One -- the definition or nature of theology -- the division or parts of theology -- faith -- God and his essence -- the subsistence of God -- the efficiency of God -- the decree and counsel of God -- creation -- providence -- special government of intelligent creatures -- man's apostasy or fall -- the consequences of sin -- original sin -- actual sin -- bodily death -- the consummation of death -- the propagation of sin -- the person of Christ, the mediator -- the office of Christ -- satisfaction -- the life of the humiliated Christ -- the death of Christ -- the exaltation of Christ -- the application of Christ -- predestination -- calling -- justification -- adoption -- sanctification -- glorification -- the church mystically considered -- the church instituted -- the extraordinary ministers of the church -- holy scriptures -- ordinary ministers and their office in preaching -- the sacraments -- ecclesiastical discipline -- the administration of the covenant of grace before the coming of Christ -- the administration of the covenant from the coming of Christ to the end of the world -- baptism and the Lord's supper -- the end of the world -- Book Two -- observance in general -- virtue -- good works -- religion -- faith -- hope -- charity or love -- the hearing of the word -- prayer -- taking oaths -- lots -- testing God -- instituted worship -- the manner of divine worship -- the time of worship -- justice and charity toward our neighbor -- the honor of our neighbor -- humanity toward our neighbor -- chastity -- commutative justice -- telling the truth -- contentment

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